{"id":262,"date":"2008-10-11T00:33:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/family-and-comrade-bush\/"},"modified":"2008-10-11T00:33:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T00:33:30","slug":"family-and-comrade-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/family-and-comrade-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Family, and Comrade Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A work colleague and I were having a chat this afternoon when her eye was caught by the picture on the screen of one of my PCs.<br \/>\n&#8220;Ooh! Is that your family ?&#8221; she asked, earnestly. <a href=\"media\/lbusa.jpg\">This was the picture.<\/a> Thanks. Which one is supposed to be my mum ?<\/p>\n<p>Moving that aside, my Venezuelan connection alerted me to news that the leftist governments of Latin America are currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/world\/story\/53611.html\">referring to W as &#8220;Comrade&#8221;.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>My favourite quote from this, and possibly the most excellent paragraph ever written, is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;One of our economists was telling us that Bush has just implemented communism for the rich,&#8221; Castro said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A work colleague and I were having a chat this afternoon when her eye was caught by the picture on the screen of one of my PCs. &#8220;Ooh! Is that your family ?&#8221; she asked, earnestly. This was the picture. Thanks. Which one is supposed to be my mum ? Moving that aside, my Venezuelan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}